We're going to turn our attention to the Boost module in this section. Boost is a contributed module that allows you to run incredibly advanced static page caching on your Drupal site. This caching mechanism will help to increase performance and scalability on your site, especially if it gets heavy traffic and anonymous page visits, and it is on a shared hosting environment. This is usually the first contributed performance-based module to turn to for help when you host your Drupal site on a shared server. Developers running Drupal sites on shared servers and running sites that serve predominantly anonymous Drupal users will definitely want to try out this module. It's also a fun module to use from a technical standpoint because you can see the results immediately, as you configure it.
The Drupal project page for the module is here: http://drupal.org/project/boost. There is a wealth of detailed information about the module on this project page, including announcements...